Reinvented 30 years since the original album was released to dramatic effect in 1984. Stripped down and set free of the original arrangements, the songs on Declaration [30th Anniversary] have been able to move with the times and are as relevant to life today as they were when written in the early 1980’s. "I felt like I could make a special record by treating the songs as if they had been written now," continues Peters. "It wasn’t an easy process and I very nearly turned back a few times along the way. I had to take a very disciplined approach that was governed by the first principle The Alarm ever had, and that was to make music with an acoustic guitar, drum, harmonica and voice".Continued In "More Info"

Strength [30th Anniversary] has been rearranged and recorded from the ground up by lead singer and songwriter Mike Peters. “I always felt that song for song, word for word, ’Strength’ was The Alarm’s best album of the 1980’s and had layers of hidden qualities that were never truly revealed or properly explored back in those heady 1980’s days", says Peters. Re-imagined and informed by experience gained, the songs on Strength [30th Anniversary] have been able to shed skin and live again for new times. "There are a lot of stories on Strength, many of them autobiographical or written from personal experience" continues Peters, "I still see the people I wrote about in the songs and live on the same streets affected by the political landscape documented in the original telling and I felt that they deserved an updating so that they could tell of challenges met and of relationships strengthened by time."

You may know this man from Texas Radio Band. Alex Dingley has crafted an immensely catchy album that we just can’t stop playing! it was recorded with the help of Mr Huw and the live line up features Cate Le Bon (on drums) and Ms. Swci Boscawen (beautiful harmonies!!)

Revenge-pop? The Prog Karen Carpenter? Barbra Streisand on acid? Bat For Lashes on an obscure book-binge? Whichever way you choose to describe Confessions Of A Romance Novelist - the debut album by The Anchoress (co-produced by Mansun’s visionary frontman Paul Draper) - one thing’s for certain, this is something truly different.

You might have previously chanced upon Artefact if you’ve got your ear to the ground of the fertile, exciting DIY punk circuit in the UK. Equally, they might be brand new to you, but there’s no shame in that game. Release-wise, the four-piece have gone straight from a demo to a debut LP a step-up that, Votive Offering , the long player in question, justifies in a half-hour blaze of elegant, alluring gothic punk grandeur. (Noel Gardner). Artefact assembled in the Welsh capital, Cardiff, around late 2014 and debuted in early 2015 with a seven-song demo cassette. Featuring Hannah Saunders on vocals, Matthew Green on guitar, Jon Mohajer on bass and Danny Parsons on drums, members’ musical CVs span indiepop (Joanna Gruesome), post-hardcore (Facel Vega), emo (Plaids), garage punk (Twisted) and slowcore (Mars To Stay). This collective experience has certainly informed Artefact, in terms of how they operate and conduct themselves, but it should equally be seen as a clean break, and a chance to indulge their tastes for postpunk, goth, deathrock and the darker side of the tracks in general.

Debut album from local types Attack and Defend, some of whom were responsible for the poster we had up outside our shop a while back. Some of whom were also responsible for playing here for the launch of the Twisted By Design compilation CD which the band are on. All of whom were responsible for this album, which they should be proud of.